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Monday, February 16, 2015

A BOOK REVIEW OF THE AMISH CLOCKMAKER BY MINDY STARNS CLARK AND SUSAN MEISSNER

The Amish Clockmaker
(Harvest House Publishers) by Mindy Starns Clark and Susan Meissner is a five star
entertaining delight! This book has it
all from romance to mystery. But not
just your run of the mill romance and mystery.
Both are written in depth and in a way that is unlike any other Amish
novel out there. Readers should keep
tissues handy as the end is tender and touching.

While trying to enlarge the family tack shop, Matthew
Zook is told there is a parcel of land they want to build on that does not
belong to the Zook family. It turns out
that former land owners Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Raber still own that parcel of
land and as a result, it had not been sold to the Zooks.

Clayton Raber, a clockmaker, had a terrible temper
according to the Amish in the community that remembered him. It was thought that Clayton killed his wife
back in 1955, however, although he was arrested for the murder, the charges were
dropped. Clayton left the community and
Amish church after being released from jail and it seems that no one knows
where he went.

Matthew Zook desperately needs to find Clayton Raber to
get him to sign a quick claim deed for the land before he can continue his
remodeling project on his family shop.
The book is divided into three sections, telling Matthew’s story,
Clayton’s story, and the conclusion, which is divine. Truly, the writing is so beautifully done and
out of the ordinary, that it makes this Amish novel hard to put down.

Mindy Starns Clark and Susan Meissner have been geniuses
in writing this series, The Men of
Lancaster County. The normal Amish novel has a female as its protagonist,
but in this series, it is always a man telling the story. The
Amish Clockmaker is Book Three in the series. All the books are fantastic but this last one,
The Amish Clockmaker, is a flawless piece of literature, and a book anyone
would be proud to have in their permanent library, regardless if they are a fan
of Amish genre or not. The Amish Clockmaker was published
February 1, 2015.